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jerica psych 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the force that moves people to behave, think, and feel the way they do | motivation |
| an innate biological pattern of behavior that is assumed to be universal throughout a species | instinct |
| a physical or biological deprivation that energizes the drive to eliminate or reduce the deprivation | need |
| an aroused state that occurs because of a physiological need | drive |
| performance is best under conditions of moderate arousal rather than either low or high arousal | yerkes-dodson law |
| the weight maintained when a person makes no effort to gain or lose weight | set point |
| produced mainly by the ovaries | estrogens |
| testosterone , are produced by the testes in male children and adults and by the adrenal glands in all people | androgens |
| sexual motivation is influence by what | sexual scripts |
| stereotyped patterns of expectancies for how people should behave sexually | sexual scripts |
| involves providing students with comprehensive knowledge about sexual behavior, birth control, and the use of condoms in protecting against sexually transmitted infections while encouraging them to delay sexual activity and practice abstinence | comprehensive sex education |
| claim that sexual behavior outside of marriage is harmful to people of any age | abstinence only approach |
| multifaceted, complex concept that includes the direction of their erotic interests but also their behaviors and identity | sexual orientation |
| must be satisfied in the following sequence: physiological needs, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization | hierarchy of need |
| who proposed the hierarchy of needs? | abraham maslow |
| asserts that there are three basic organismic needs: competence, relatedness, and autonomy | self determination theory |
| based on internal factors such as organismic need | intrinsic motivation |
| involves external incentives such as rewards and punishments | extrinsic motivation |
| process by which an individual effortfully controls behavior to pursue important objectives | self-regulation |
| who proposed emotion | james- lange theory |
| developed by stanley schachter and jerome singer | two factory theory of emotion |
| facial expressions can influence emotions as well as reflect them | facial feedback hypothesis |
| sonja lyubomirsky proposed a theory on what | happiness |